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Professor Emeritus Justin “Jake” Kerwin, an expert in propeller design and ship hydrodynamics, dies at 90
at the age of 90 on May 23. Kerwin, who served on MIT’s ocean engineering faculty for four decades, ... lecturer. He was invited to join the then Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (now part ... of the Department of Mechanical Engineering) as assistant professor in 1960, one year prior to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-justin-%E2%80%9Cjake%E2%80%9D-kerwin-expert-propeller-design-and-ship-hydrodynamicsMIT community members honored with 2024 Franklin Institute Awards
influential scientists, engineers, and inventors who have significantly advanced science and technology. It is ... Hammond is one of only 25 people who have been elected to all three U.S. National Academies — Engineering ... Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering for “his pioneering role in the design, development, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-community-members-honored-2024-franklin-institute-awardsArtificial intelligence meets “blisk” in new DARPA-funded collaboration
University (Lehigh) under the Multiobjective Engineering and Testing of Alloy Structures (METALS) program. ... (including jet and rocket engines) as an exemplary challenge problem. “This project could have important ... reusable, rocket engines that will power the next generation of heavy-lift launch vehicles,” says Zachary ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-intelligence-meets-%E2%80%9Cblisk%E2%80%9D-new-darpa-funded-collaborationGeorge Hatsopoulos, senior lecturer emeritus and MIT Corporation life member emeritus, dies at 91
George Nicholas Hatsopoulos, an MIT mechanical engineering senior lecturer emeritus who founded ... received The John Fritz Medal which is often regarded as the highest honor in engineering ... ingenuity at a young age. Inspired by his many relatives who were engineers, he made an image projector ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/george-hatsopoulos-senior-lecturer-emeritus-and-mit-corporation-life-member-emeritus-diesEvelyn Wang appointed as director of US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
of Engineering and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, as director of the Department of ... professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been appointed as director of the ... engineering from MIT in 2000. After receiving her master’s degree and PhD from Stanford University, she ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/evelyn-wang-appointed-director-us-department-energy%E2%80%99s-advanced-research-projects-agencyTen from MIT awarded 2020 Fulbright Fellowships
engineering and architecture. Passionate about sustainable development, she has worked on a number of academic ... Fulbright, Hu will matriculate at Columbia University to pursue a doctorate degree in chemical engineering ... a senior majoring in mechanical engineering. He grew up on an island in Washington state, where he became ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ten-mit-awarded-2020-fulbright-fellowshipsFive MIT PhD students awarded 2022 J-WAFS fellowships for water and food solutions
and family. Aditya Ghodgaonkar is a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, ... where he works in the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab under Professor Amos Winter. ... Ghodgaonkar received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the RV College of Engineering in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-phd-students-awarded-2022-j-wafs-fellowships-water-and-food-solutionsRetirements
conversion. He was Associate Dean of the MIT School of Engineering between 1975 and 1977, and the Associate ... of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Institute of Medicine, and the National ... Faculty Fellow in 2000. He recently retired from his position as Professor of Mechanical Engineering in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/retirementsGraduate students win first place in 2019 Patagonia Case Competition
student in civil and environmental engineering; Cristina Bleicher, an MBA candidate; Ty ... Christoff-Tempesta, a PhD candidate in materials science and engineering; Cherry Gao, a PhD candidate in biological ... engineering; Ellena Kim, an MBA candidate; and Jordan Landis, an MBA candidate and master's student in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graduate-students-win-first-place-2019-patagonia-case-competitionAsegun Henry wins National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award
Mechanical Engineering, as a 2023 recipient of its Alan T. Waterman Award. This award is the NSF's ... highest honor for early-career researchers and provides funding for research in any science or engineering ... mechanical engineer to ever win the award. In addition to a medal, Henry and his fellow awardees, Natalie S. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/asegun-henry-wins-national-science-foundation%E2%80%99s-alan-t-waterman-awardDora Aldama: Drawn to multidimensional problems
Dreamliner plane, headed from Los Angeles to Shanghai. To a typical passenger, the twin-engine jet airliner ... engineering and an exciting glimpse into her immediate future. The 787 was the same model she would be working ... engineering major as an undergraduate at MIT before working for five years on oil systems of jet engines as an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/dora-aldama-drawn-multidimensional-problemsDora Aldama
Dreamliner plane, headed from Los Angeles to Shanghai. To a typical passenger, the twin-engine jet airliner ... engineering and an exciting glimpse into her immediate future. The 787 was the same model she would be working ... engineering major as an undergraduate at MIT before working for five years on oil systems of jet engines as an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/dora-aldama-0Aviation Week's 2014 Twenty20s Include Two with Ties to MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Awards recognize promising work of young aerospace engineers. Among the 20 students selected by ... Aviation Week magazine as "Tomorrow's Engineering Leaders: The Twenty20s" are Michael Stern, ... recognize top undergraduate and graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/aviation-weeks-2014-twenty20s-include-two-ties-mit-lincoln-laboratoryStudent Spotlight: Yamile Pariente
position by another engineer who oversees engine design and construction. 2015ME_Yamille-1024.jpg Yamile ... engineering, because, she says, “I assumed they’d say no to my request, so I figured I might as well aim high. ... cars, so I chose to become a mechanical engineer. “Of all the ‘manly’ hobbies my father tried to instill ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-yamile-parienteGuided discovery in teaching structural mechanics
Over the course of their education at MIT, mechanical engineering undergraduate students have many ... mechanics. Class 2.001 (Mechanics and Materials I) provides mechanical engineering students the foundation ... in mechanical engineering,” explains Simona Socrate, senior lecturer. “We are trying to form a basis ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/guided-discovery-teaching-structural-mechanicsEleven MIT faculty receive Presidential Early Career Awards
Eleven MIT faculty, including nine from the School of Engineering and two from the School of ... Science, were awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). More than ... PECASE is awarded to scientists and engineers “who show exceptional potential for leadership early in ...
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